Carnelian
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- Comment on As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent 2 weeks ago:
Which specific point do we disagree on? It seems you have acknowledged the necessity of new games, and even provided specific examples. So the matter is settled, yes?
- Comment on As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent 2 weeks ago:
I’m not saying we don’t need the odd new DeltaRune or Blue Prince
Okay great, so you agree with me 100%, thank you for clarifying.
Regarding “New Title” addicts who consider anything released more than one day ago to be valueless, I agree that that is nonsensical. I’m confused about why you’re bringing it to my attention, however
- Comment on As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent 2 weeks ago:
Of course it does. Art is the medium through which we process and communicate our most complicated emotions. As the world continues to change, more and more art will have the power to affect us positively
- Comment on As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent 2 weeks ago:
I’m grossed/weirded out by yet another micro transaction riddled “live service” masquerading as an indie passion project. They even did a disgusting little media tour citing how they want their particular web of sub-nested premium currencies to be particular ethical, and not charge more $20 for their awful cosmetics.
The world needs more good games. The world does not need more soulless cash grabs
- Comment on smart 5 weeks ago:
Yeah solving it without following any method probably actually requires you to be a genius or something lol
I love the established speedcubing strategies tho, it basically changes it from being a puzzle you’re trying to solve into being similar to a rogue-like video game where you get a new “map” each time. Totally different skillset but also super rewarding in its own way
- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 5 weeks ago:
Presumably caused by people browsing on their blow-off-some-steam deck
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
Oh the self proclaimed ambassador for the field of biology is back at it again, what a surprise. Has he revealed yet that his smoking gun ‘study’ that defines sex and ‘represents literally all of biology’ is actually just a rant from a discredited nut job podcaster who has dozens of posts whining about how he’s been totally ostracized by all other biologists?
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
wow thanks for advising me to pick better battles, yes I’ll check my corner upon gender before selecting my next opponent
Make sure to drink some water before you go to bed tonight, okay?
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
You drunk or something guy? After two days of being online constantly you decide to finally dig this back up to make some “I’m so over it” announcement and insult me for two paragraphs?
What exactly do you want out of this interaction, me to say “wow thanks for not blocking me, yes I totally believe you when you say you are mature and unaffected one”?
And since you asked so politely, no, I’m not a man. Nice guess though, want to try again?
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
I’m sorry, you literally openly praised Scam Altman’s product as a massively superior option to web searching yes? Highly nuanced, saves you a ton of time, remember? And your response to the most obvious flaw with this use case is to deny you are affected by the problem in any way and to deflect the topic onto my attitude?
You genuinely remind me of my late uncle who snapped at us every time we told him to quit smoking. He was so convinced it wouldn’t catch up to him, had a hundred justifications. I’ll never forget the way his young daughter cried at the funeral. And before you and your “AI enhanced workflow” get into a whole thing about how cigarettes are different from computer programs, I’m not calling ChatGPT a Marlborough Red, I’m calling you bull headed. I could have just said as much, but as you’ve noticed, I like my fluff.
Anyway, I love how on the one point you addressed, your actual argument shifts from “it’s incredibly beneficial” to “it’s merely an insignificant fraction of my workflow!” Like, notice how your literal first instinct isn’t to defend the usefulness of chatgpt in this instance but to defend the integrity of your French by assuring me you are using legitimate sources as well.
This is the same pattern all AI victims I’ve spoken with have fallen into. It begins with “oh it saves me so much time it’s so useful!” Then as we interrogate how it’s useful to them it turns out all it does is waste their time with a bunch of bullshit they need to verify when they could have just gone directly to the source they use to verify in the first place.
That is if they even bother to verify, btw. But I honestly don’t know which direction is worse. A huge issue is the ones who “verify” are then always completely convinced that they have verified everything correctly. You can imagine the dangers of this mentality
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
Okay so this time it’s “I like to fuck around with irrelevant sports statistics and I’m really excited to eventually humiliate myself the first time I try my French with a native speaker”
Listen. Thanks for sharing. I genuinely mean that btw I’m aware I’m being abrasive but you’re putting out your perspective in good faith and I appreciate that. That being said I obviously strongly disagree with any of what you’ve listed being a “benefit”, and I especially caution you against considering SlopGPT to be a “nuanced” source of information for your search queries.
There is a difference between believing you have benefitted and actually benefitting. It’s astonishing to me that you would be concerned about the capitalists yet trust them so adamantly in this moment to manage your very relationship with information. Regardless, I hope you have a happy and safe new year. Cheers
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
Yeah we’re 3 years past where the scam artists claimed this shit will have already evolved out of its early stages. It ain’t happening.
It takes no effort at all to understand the ins and outs btw. It’s “accurate” for the most abundantly well documented problems you used to solve in half the time by just copy/pasting from stack overflow. The rest of the time it contradicts the advice your mom’s doctor gave her. Sooooo useful wow. But sure shoot your shot, I’d love to hear about how you used it to build a grocery list app or whatever you’re so excited about
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
every time I see people(?) crowing about how amazing AI is
You’re correct that there’s a massive flood of bots pushing it everywhere. But regardless of what the subject is, once someone has “bought in” to a scam they tend to stick with it and defend it no matter what. Because the alternative is admitting they were fooled, and that’s basically an uncrossable bridge for most folks.
People on their literal death beds were using their literal last words (before being intubated with covid) to threaten nurses not to go near them with “the jab”. So it really doesn’t surprise me that people continue using “AI” despite it being worse than worthless for literally everything
- Comment on How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user? 1 month ago:
If it’s just empty desk back there, then you can prop your phone up and have it play cool nature videos
- Comment on How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user? 1 month ago:
I honestly can’t think of any scenario in which this would actually be useful.
Nothing useful, but pondering this unearthed a deeply buried memory. Way back in the day I jailbroke my iphone 4. There was a theme you could instal through Cydia called “Glasklart” that replaced your icons with beautiful hand crafted transparent ones. There was also a program that let you use your away-facing camera’s preview pane as a homescreen wallpaper. The result of combining the two was seriously beautiful for the half hour my battery would last haha.
As an aside, wow both of those old things are still up on Cydia too. I switched to android and stopped following all things jailbreak, but it looks like Glasklart kept receiving updates all the way into 2017
- Comment on but like seriously do try it 1 month ago:
Read a book with a cat
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 1 month ago:
This. It’s amazing to watch normal people operate. It’s like they think the universe must be showing them the ads for some profound reason
- Comment on AI Overview 1 month ago:
Dead in 20 minutes tops
- Comment on Are you happy now, so-called "bleeding heart" libs? 1 month ago:
The fact we can see the kid at all is actually pretty impressive for american trucks
- Comment on Damn 2 months ago:
Almost a full kg of sugar if the display case had 48 bars
- Comment on Is audiophile bullshit cheating? 2 months ago:
The people actually making the music: I mastered this album with the $100 audio technica headphones and checked if it sounded good in my car
Self proclaimed audiophiles listening to that same music: for about twenty thousand dollars you can get a basic setup, sure. But to really understand the artist’s intention you need at least a hundred grand
- Comment on American exceptionalism 2 months ago:
Did she ever come back around on you? If only we could explain things to them haha
- Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 2 months ago:
I think unlisted means they just won’t appear in search/recommended, but can still be viewed if you link directly to them
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 2 months ago:
You just gotta be careful. Megacorps will drop prices to take advantage of the exact logic you’ve laid out. On an individual day you’re gonna save money on an individual purchase with them, sure.
But once the local place goes out of business, suddenly there isn’t anyone for them to undercut, so the prices creep back up.
Then you’re in the exact same situation as before, usually a bit worse. Except, before, the money you spent at the local business would mostly recirculate within your actual community. Now it’s being siphoned off into some yacht measuring contest. Local wages go down because people need to take jobs at the big companies, which then reinforces the “every dollar counts” problem, making it ever harder for your community to reverse course.
This gets worse and worse until the corpos eventually abandon your community. So you used to have a local grocer, then corpo drives them out of business, then corpo shutters the location for poor performance. Now you live in a food desert
The dream of all vampires is to keep you barely alive enough to be fed on. They go to extreme lengths to control the narrative around this so instead of seeing vampires actively trying to enthrall us we see them more as a friendly, convenient way to help make ends meet. But convincing us that shopping local is a burdensome act of charity is their first line of attack
- Comment on Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding 2 months ago:
Wow this looks incredible actually! Definitely giving it a go, thank you
- Comment on Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding 2 months ago:
I will take this opportunity to recommend Crosscode, one of the best action RPGs of all time according to 90% of people who play it.
But yeah even amazing games like that fly under people’s radar in the huge deluge of games. I wish it were easier for good games to find their audience
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 2 months ago:
My tag for them is “Biologist Whisperer”, I like yours better tho lmao. I can only imagine the context
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 2 months ago:
It’s comedic actually, your “literally all of biology” is exposed as being an indefensible fringe whack job, and you hand wave it away without further comment. I guess this was always the road you were destined to take, as with all pseudo-intellectual hucksters who are incapable of providing receipts
As for your continued inflexible adamance that there are perfectly binary biological absolutes, you are almost too dense to believe lol. They even have a graph that explains it for you. I can appreciate the low effort nature of how you are trying to save face with ctrl+f, but at some point scientific integrity demands you actually sit down to understand a topic, rather than just draw transphobic constellations over individual sentences
Since we are apparently moving now to our closing arguments by addressing our readers, against all odds, we have ended up in agreement. I also encourage readers to go check out the drivel you posted for themselves. The morons seeking a safe space in their little right wing echo chamber will be thrilled to hear their beliefs uncritically asserted at them, and anyone with a brain will be equally amused at how badly the author humiliates himself both in the paper and elsewhere online.
I’m glad we were able to conclude things so amicably, enjoy your holiday weekend (if you happen to be an American)!
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 2 months ago:
Most humiliating trash I’ve ever read, thank you! A ridiculous and indecipherable attempt at science. He randomly states nonsense circular reasoning without citation, and he also frequently cites random non-scientific opinion fluff articles from transphobes. How bizarre.
Ah, and wouldn’t you know it. The author is an explicitly transphobic right wing podcaster, who prattles on endlessly about the “social contagion” of “transgenderism” and cries like a little baby about how he has been “unfairly” excluded from the broader scientific community.
In conclusion - because you may need this spelled out for you - a single error ridden opinion piece by a discredited loser does not invalidate the overwhelming consensus of experts. By literal whining self proclamation his views are unrepresentative of the consensus of experts.
My intuition was obviously correct all along, but thank you for proving definitively that your views amount to nothing more than 100% science themed transphobic propaganda.
Where are you sourcing that from?
Literally the meta analysis I already linked. The consensus of experts is that gametes are bimodal. You should try listening to scientists if you care so much about science lol